Ethics

In each of the following cases, identify the ideals, or ideals and obligations, that are in conflict. Examine the action taken or proposed and decide whether it achieves the greater good (or lesser harm). An 18-year-old student, home from college during the semester break, stumbles onto the fact that his father, whom he thought to be a business machines salesman, is actually a gunman for the mob. Moreover, he recently killed a member of a rival mob faction. The son considers going to the police and turning his father in, but he does not do so.